Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: On 4/08/2006 3:17 AM, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs a

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: On 4/08/2006 3:17 AM, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs are in the system or even how many there a

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread Antony Mawer
On 4/08/2006 3:17 AM, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs are in the system or even how many there are. It doesn't tell you exactly what sor

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs are in the system or even how many there are. It doesn't tell you exactly what sort of memory or disk drives the system uses

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Olivier Nicole wrote: >> pciconf -lv needs to be parsed, this being the hard step, into a string >> that can be sent via HTTP ... this is the hard part because it has to be >> done as/in a shell script ... anyone out there *really* good at shell >> programming? > > Why not doing the parsing on

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Olivier Nicole wrote: Why not doing the parsing on the server? Is there a limit on the size of an HTTP GET request? Yes. Something like 4k springs to mind. That's what POST is for and would be easy in Perl, but then we can't use that :-( --Alex _

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread Brian McKeon
User Freebsd wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I don't think this stuff should be tracked in any centralized fashion. I don't particullarly like when our freedom to choose to do something is tracked or monitored; because it is no longer a freedom. Maybe that is j

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
> pciconf -lv needs to be parsed, this being the hard step, into a string > that can be sent via HTTP ... this is the hard part because it has to be > done as/in a shell script ... anyone out there *really* good at shell > programming? Why not doing the parsing on the server? Is there a limit

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread Antony Mawer
On 4/08/2006 10:38 AM, Tamouh H. wrote: I've been doing some thinking on it this afternoon, and think I've figured out about the simpliest way of doing it ... it still doesn't deal with "fakers" and such, but, IMHO, I don't think that that is a *huge* problem that needs to be addressed ... som

RE: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread Tamouh H.
> I've been doing some thinking on it this afternoon, and think > I've figured out about the simpliest way of doing it ... it > still doesn't deal with "fakers" and such, but, IMHO, I don't > think that that is a *huge* problem that needs to be > addressed ... some might do it for a lark, but,

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I don't think this stuff should be tracked in any centralized fashion. I don't particullarly like when our freedom to choose to do something is tracked or monitored; because it is no longer a freedom. Maybe that is just paranoia speaking.

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread Antony Mawer
On 4/08/2006 7:30 AM, User Freebsd wrote: ... STEP 2: pciconf -lv needs to be parsed, this being the hard step, into a string that can be sent via HTTP ... this is the hard part because it has to be done as/in a shell script ... anyone out there *really* good at shell programming? See my co

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Boris Samorodov wrote: Hi Marc, On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:30:08 -0300 (ADT) you wrote: Okay, there has been alot of discussion on this in the other thread, some of it tangent'd to the original, so, I'm starting off a new thread as a sort of summary ... Great idea, but shoul

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Boris Samorodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Marc, > > > On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:30:08 -0300 (ADT) you wrote: > > > Okay, there has been alot of discussion on this in > the other thread, > > some of it tangent'd to the original, so, I'm > starting off a new > > thread as a sort of summar

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hi Marc, On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:30:08 -0300 (ADT) you wrote: > Okay, there has been alot of discussion on this in the other thread, > some of it tangent'd to the original, so, I'm starting off a new > thread as a sort of summary ... Great idea, but should be introduced with care... > I've been

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
Sweet, thanks ... On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Philip Hallstrom wrote: pciconf -lv needs to be parsed, this being the hard step, into a string that can be sent via HTTP ... this is the hard part because it has to be done as/in a shell script ... anyone out there *really* good at shell programming?

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
pciconf -lv needs to be parsed, this being the hard step, into a string that can be sent via HTTP ... this is the hard part because it has to be done as/in a shell script ... anyone out there *really* good at shell programming? What needs to happen is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:2: class=0x060400 car

Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
Okay, there has been alot of discussion on this in the other thread, some of it tangent'd to the original, so, I'm starting off a new thread as a sort of summary ... I've been doing some thinking on it this afternoon, and think I've figured out about the simpliest way of doing it ... it stil